Zwave is a proprietary protocol. Its old and unnecessary complex. Zigbee devices are a lot cheaper. And in many cases better performing than zwave mesh networks. A few years ago you still had zwave devices you did not have zigbee variants for. But now? Cant think of one.
> Zwave is a proprietary protocol. Its old and unnecessary complex. Zigbee devices are a lot cheaper. And in many cases better performing than zwave mesh networks.
That’s not entirely correct. Zwave is more expensive because if you want to sell your zwave solution there’s a monopoly on zwave.
Nothing to do with complexity or age.
As for “better performing”, I don’t even know how to respond. Latency? Reliability? Power? Bandwidth?
Zwave in general is better then zigbee due to lower frequencies and staying out of WiFi/bt. However it is more expensive and less options.
Why is this an issue? Z-Wave is a mesh network, all hardwired switches/outlets/etc. are repeaters by default.
> low volt LEDs in your kitchen like I do
What is "low volt?" 12-24V? I have this in my kitchen using a 110V -> 24V dimmable LED PSU and a Z-Wave triac dimmer.
Zigbee is not Z-Wave - Z-Wave has far more definition and structure to available devices and can do everything Lutron can do at this point.